
Remembering Issey Miyake, the designer who walked between worlds
...one Black model in a runway show was rare and still considered taboo, but Bethann Hardison helped Issey Miyake produce what seemed to be daring...

Inspired by the words of James Baldwin, Virgil Abloh envisions fashion’s Black future
...exemplar, this comes with the territory,” Bethann Hardison, the former model, who has become an advocate for representation in fashion told The New York Times...

Ming Smith’s ‘Strange Fruit’ reveals the specters of American history
...after graduating from Howard University and took up modeling to support herself. Working alongside Grace Jones, Bethann Hardison, and Sherry Bronfman, Smith was among that...

Keeping Timelessness Fresh—Indochine’s Jean-Marc Houmard Speaks With Athena Calderone
...people from that party in this magazine. From Glenn O’Brien to Maripol to Bethann Hardison, and on and on. Indochine is effortless in its time...

From one top model to another—Bethann Hardison and Liya Kebede on revolutionizing the runway
...on the pedal, the car will stop.”—Bethann Hardison Liya: So the print girls didn’t have any relationship with the designers? Bethann: Correct. Because we had...
